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billions of dollars of aid from the united states, number one. number two where is the united states in the international community providing support to the international relief fund organization such as the red cross to provide the relief necessary. i said in my last article in the "huffington post," i'm not in favor of boots on the ground, but we could certainly provide angels in the air. we could provide for humanitarian support. this is where i'm most unhappy about the obama administration's failure on syria. it's bad enough that it does not have a policy to deal with the strategic issues, but why can't we do more on the humanitarian side? >> eliot: the failure to act, do you think we'll lose them as it were, and will they turn elsewhere for support and say you know what, united states, you talked a good game but you didn't show up when we needed you and we'll find our finds elsewherefriendselsewhere. >> it's not speculation. it's a fact. the syrian army came out and publicly criticized the administration for promising to deliver non-lethal a
billions of dollars of aid from the united states, number one. number two where is the united states in the international community providing support to the international relief fund organization such as the red cross to provide the relief necessary. i said in my last article in the "huffington post," i'm not in favor of boots on the ground, but we could certainly provide angels in the air. we could provide for humanitarian support. this is where i'm most unhappy about the obama...
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in the united states senate who fought for civil rights. who fought for voting rights. who stood with us. who met with us on the day we marched on washington almost 50 years ago. you had people like one of the great leaders of the united states senate and now these leaders are not -- even the nominee who said one word -- not one word about what they're trying to do. >> eliot: it is fascinating because you're right. i remember even in new york, not even in new york, rockefeller republicans who were more liberal probably than democratic party today. >> you could have rockefeller you had so many other republicans. some had federal judges that were appointed by eisenhower that were much more progressive. >> eliot: right. and yet now the drive to win a misguided drive to win and i think their math is wrong. their legal thinking is clearly wrong. underlying ideology is wrong. they're willing to pass legislation through the states that will prohibit people from voting even though they acknowledge there's not a single shred of evidence of any fraud
in the united states senate who fought for civil rights. who fought for voting rights. who stood with us. who met with us on the day we marched on washington almost 50 years ago. you had people like one of the great leaders of the united states senate and now these leaders are not -- even the nominee who said one word -- not one word about what they're trying to do. >> eliot: it is fascinating because you're right. i remember even in new york, not even in new york, rockefeller republicans...
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a reference to the income disparity in the united states. quickly protests began to spread across the country and soon into a worldwide movement about fairness and equality. many the time misrepresented the movement about being anti-capitalism. it was anti-the form of capitalism that had become norm. as martin wonderful has quote the world's preeminent journallest writes in his essay which appears in the occupy hand book. capitalism has always changed in order to survive and thrive. it needs to change again. mr. wolf chief commentator for the financial times joins me from london. thankthank you for joining us and thank you for for for your clever critique you've been pulling throughout the years. >> thank you. it's a pleasure to be with you. >> eliot: throughout your article, you use a word that is at the core of so much of what occurred in 2008. that word is "leverage." why is leverage the elixir fundamental to the way the economy has gone. >> leverage is debt. taking savings from savers to people who want to use it, to use the savings. and
a reference to the income disparity in the united states. quickly protests began to spread across the country and soon into a worldwide movement about fairness and equality. many the time misrepresented the movement about being anti-capitalism. it was anti-the form of capitalism that had become norm. as martin wonderful has quote the world's preeminent journallest writes in his essay which appears in the occupy hand book. capitalism has always changed in order to survive and thrive. it needs to...
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the right to vote in the united states is a fragile right and we don't take care of it very well. >> not only is it legally on shaky crowd, because it's firmly inshrined in the constitution, but we have election districts scattered around the united states. many of them making up rules many of them underfunded many without proper training for all of them involved and all of them subject to partisanship many who want to alter or bend the rules. >> eliot: partisanship has gotten in the way of easy reform that could overcome these mechanical problems. i want to raise one more constitutional challenge, which is the electoral challenge. what is this that we're talking about and why do we have it any more? >> it's a vestige of the 18th century. as it stands, it works and warps to voters. >> eliot: explain that. >> sure, basically in order to win the presidency you've got to get 270 electoral college votes. and you know, what you can basically do is really quickly take a look at which ones are solid. which one are guaranteed. >> eliot: democrats will win new york, why spend monday there. >>
the right to vote in the united states is a fragile right and we don't take care of it very well. >> not only is it legally on shaky crowd, because it's firmly inshrined in the constitution, but we have election districts scattered around the united states. many of them making up rules many of them underfunded many without proper training for all of them involved and all of them subject to partisanship many who want to alter or bend the rules. >> eliot: partisanship has gotten in...
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. >> eliot: coming up, reading between the lines of the united states constitution. but first late last night the nfl and the nfl referees association finally reached a settlement. so let's take a moment to look back fondly on the era of the nfl replacement ref. when it doesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the viewfinder. >> after four months of being off the field the referee's union has reached a tentative deal with the nfl -- with the nfl body. >> the replacement refs are proving to be a disaster. >> two families both alike in dignity. one, the referee, the other, the league of national football is locked in dispute ages old. [ speaking foreign language ] >> famously bad call on monday night football that people are still talking about. [ speaking foreign language ] >> we need to get rid of these temporary refs just like we need to replace the obama administration. >> this guy knows how to pivot. we went from refs to president obama. >> that's what we were saying this morning. look, that was an interception. anybody who watches that will know. [ whistle ] >> gre
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this is why the president of the united states does not want to draw that line. we don't think they're going to cross that. and if they do, we'll see them doing it. we'll see them changing the centrifuges. we'll see them enriching to bonds grade. >> eliot: the quality of our intelligence because we're trying to discern motive on their part. do they intend to actually take what is some volume of enriched uranium, threshold we don't precisely know and go to the next step and of course that's why all of the centrifuges and the effort to close them down. we're trying to presume and infer from their behavior what their intent is. >> we also see what they're doing. so the reason that prime minister netanyahu has these precise quantities and is making this precise prediction is because there are u.n. inspectors at the facilities, measuring what goes in, measuring what goes out. if they were to take that uranium out of those facilities, we would see them doing it. if they were to reconfigure the centrifuges because you have to be real careful when you start making weapon
this is why the president of the united states does not want to draw that line. we don't think they're going to cross that. and if they do, we'll see them doing it. we'll see them changing the centrifuges. we'll see them enriching to bonds grade. >> eliot: the quality of our intelligence because we're trying to discern motive on their part. do they intend to actually take what is some volume of enriched uranium, threshold we don't precisely know and go to the next step and of course...